croissent
\kʁwas\
The verdict
“croissent” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,870
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de croître (ou croitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-croissent · croissent · French
croissent · rank #43,870 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,870
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croirai
Nearest frequency peer: croirai (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « croissent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- criminal
criminal
56,133 corpus weight
- croirai
croirai
56,132 corpus weight
- croissent
croissent
56,131 corpus weight
- crédules
crédules
56,130 corpus weight
- cueilli
cueilli
56,129 corpus weight
- célestine
célestine
56,128 corpus weight
What this shows « croissent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « croissent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around croissent (IPA \kʁwas\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,870 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for croissent, with forms such as "ccroissent", "corissent", and "criossent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "croient", "croisent", "croisant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is croissent, spelled C-R-O-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de croître (ou croitre).
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de croître (ou croitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how croissent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Béatrix trouva les sables jolis ; elle aperçut alors ces petites plantes dures à fleurs roses qui y croissent, elle en cueillit plusieurs auxquelles elle joignit l’œillet des Chartreux qui se trouve également dans ces sables arides et les partagea d’une façon significative avec Calyste, pour qui ces fleurs et ces feuillages devaient être une éternelle, un…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccroissent
- corissent
- criossent
- croisesnt
- croissennt
- croissentt
- croissetn
- croissnet
- crosisent
- crroissent
- rcoissent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of croissent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).